“For a new type of progress throughout the world to become a reality, everyone must change. Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order.”
During a tour of the United States, as quoted in The New York Times (5 June 1990) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE3DD1F30F936A35755C0A966958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
1990s
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“Throughout the world, change is the order of the day.”
1930s, State of the Union Address (1935)
Context: Throughout the world, change is the order of the day. In every Nation economic problems, long in the making, have brought crises of many kinds for which the masters of old practice and theory were unprepared. In most Nations social justice, no longer a distant ideal, has become a definite goal, and ancient Governments are beginning to heed the call.
Thus, the American people do not stand alone in the world in their desire for change. We seek it through tested liberal traditions, through processes which retain all of the deep essentials of that republican form of representative government first given to a troubled world by the United States.

“Mercy is "Alpha," justice is "Omega."”
Quotes from secondary sources, Smooth Stones Taken From Ancient Brooks, 1860
“It's YMCMB the fuckin alpha and omega”
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“Free Trade may be the alpha, but it is not the omega, of Liberal policy.”
Speech in Manchester (21 April 1908), quoted in Thomas Jones, Lloyd George (London: Oxford University Press, 1951), p. 35.
Chancellor of the Exchequer

“The total simultaneous pattern always extend from alpha to omega.”
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Source: "Black Women's Manifesto; Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female" (1969)

Yes, really new, and yet as all those who have ever experienced it assert, at that moment we know that we have always been at home in that world, although we only now become aware of it.
Attributed without citation at Nonduality Salon Highlights, #1891 http://www.nonduality.com/hl1891.htm, 15 August 2004

“only through new words
might new worlds
be called
into order”
Source: , said the shotgun to the head.